#will probably be a verse with multiple parts because I definitely won't finish everything I want to do with this story in three weeks

[daisyishedwig]

I love making Sebastian just overwhelming horny for Blaine. Because same, Sebastian, same.

Blaine was drenched in a sheen of sweat, his curls soaked and hanging in his eyes, smearing the sweat glistening on his forehead. His jeans had been replaced with sweatpants and instead of his usual band tee he was wearing a tight white tanktop that hugged every line of every abdominal muscle and showed off every flex of his shoulders and arms as he worked over the punching bag in front of him.  Sebastian’s mouth watered. He leaned against the lockers across from Blaine and watched, focusing hard on controlling his own body’s reaction to the image in front him. He didn’t need to look desperate. He needed to look cool and collected and aloof.  But Blaine never made that easy for him. Sebastian had always been the person to leave others flustered. To watch them stutter over their words and blush and struggle to meet his eye. Flirting was second nature to him. It came so easily he oftentimes forgot he should maybe tone it down.  Blaine Anderson flipped the script. He left Sebastian at a loss for words, struggling to come up with his usual snark. His heart pounded when Blaine met his eyes in the hallway or when they sat beside each other in French. Blaine’s accent was fucking terrible and still made Sebastian’s stomach swoop when he’d lean over to make a joke in Sebastian’s ear.  It was effort to treat Blaine like any other boy he’d been interested in. And it was exhilarating.  Blaine stilled the swinging bag with his hands as he paused for breath. He pulled his shirt up and wiped his face with it. It took everything in Sebastian to not audibly whimper. He did let his eyes rove over Blaine’s exposed skin. He licked his lips as his gaze sank to the bulge in Blaine’s pants.

[stormxpadme]

Fanfiction Writing Asks

10, 13, 20, 37, 43, 61 (for My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold), 77

Fanfiction Writing Asks

10 - Do you work on multiple wips or stick to one fic at a time?

It depends a little. If I consider my main X-Men verse as a whole, I probably always work on multiple things because there's always something to do with Weathered, be it a translation, a new oneshot or making notes for the second main series Weathered II. This is a long term project continuously interrupted by various independent oneshots that are mostly scogan smutshots with lots of feels right now. I can't really write several stories at once though. A oneshot needs to be finished first before I can start working on something else.

13 - Do you listen to music while you write? If yes, what have you been listening to recently?

It depends a lot. Lately, I've more put on background noise in the shape of trash TV as that strangely helps soothing the usual anxiety about life and helps focusing on writing, translating etc. If I do listen to music while writing, it needs to be instrumental as lyrics distract me. My go to soundtracks for that are Lord of the Rings, The Man in the Iron Mask and Armageddon

20 - Do you prefer writing AUs or canon fics?

Again, I'd say It's Complicated. There's mostly always a few minor AU elements in my stories but they do follow the main canon of the franchise in question. BUT not always the whole part of said franchise when later canon entries don't agree with me. In Star Wars, I only use the first six movies as my canon. In my X-Men verse I famously ignore everything past X2, as the first two movies are a whole different multiverse entry for me, happening outside and before all those timeless messes (and far worse newer movies) happened. I take inspiration and faceclaims from parts of franchises that I otherwise ignore but I do take the liberty of not incorporating what I hate. Such deviations are always noted in the tags and/or story notes, so people know what they're getting into. I also often enjoy changing one comparatively big thingm like the main ships in these first two X-Men movies, but stick to the rest of the canon all the more accurately as this What If is what makes fanfiction fascinating for me, really. What I hardly do is huge AU settings aka historical, no powers, coffee shop AU etc. Those don't really hold an appeal to me.

37 - What fic has been the hardest for you to write?

Again, if I only focus on my current fandom for these questions, that would probably be the non con stuff happening in series part 8 of Weathered I. That's some ugly stuff going on there and as much as I love my hurt/comfort, there's stuff I definitely don't enjoy writing for my characters, even if they have their place in a fic.

43 - Is there a trope or idea that you’d really like to write but haven’t yet?

I still want to write more and especially smut things for trans!Kitty and Piotr but since as a cisgender person, I'm not deep enough into the subject and don't have personal experience, I'm kinda anxious to try my hand on it.

61 - In My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold, what’s your favorite scene that you wrote?

While I had lots of fun with weird kid!Laura, I'd still go with the very first chapter since I'm a horror girl through and through, and that whole haunted mansion thing was lots of fun.

77 - Why do you enjoy writing fanfiction?

Basically, I can make my favorite barbie dolls kiss, what's not to love? It's all about seeing and reading the stories that canon won't give me.

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

hey! would you like to talk about your favourite songs off of each album of the beatles? i’m always curious to know what are the elements that “attract” someone to a particular song!!

Yes I would love to, anon!!!!

My favourite on Please Please Me is Please Please Me: I just think think it's really fun, find those chords in the short breakdown mid-verse very cool and the "cOME ON" is infectious! Also the rhyming in the bridge section is so fun, love rhymes that incorporate multiple words like complainin' / rain in. Do You Want To Know A Secret? has also been growing on me recently just cause it's so melodically strange, it's kind of entrancing.

For With The Beatles, my faves are Till There Was You and You Really Got A Hold On Me cause I think they're each one of the respective's lead-singers best performances, plus the guitar solo on TTWY and the backing vocals on YRGAHOM are to die for!! And if you want to know my favourite original on WTB then it's definitely All My Loving – kind of basic but it's just that great of a song. The perfect melody, really. The stop-and-gos, the walkdown basslines, the diminished chords in the middle eight. MUAH!

sidenote: I use "bridge" if the song has a clearly differentiable verse and chorus + a third part (the bridge) and I use "middle eight" for the non-main part when there are only two distinct sung parts.

On A Hard Day's Night, my favourite song is I Should Have Known Better, cause it's infectious and the middle eight going into minor just sounds so good.

On Beatles For Sale my fave is I Don't Want To Spoil The Party – my URL of course :) I think one think that originally attracted me to it is that it sounds like a Taylor song content-wise (not really music-wise but hey, country pals stick together!). I love the melody during the "I wonder what went wrong / I've waited far too long" bit and the way he and Paul trade off lead harmonies going into the middle eight is so lovely.

On Help! it's actually pretty hard to pick a favourite. Probably Help! because it's a banger and I love the backing vocals but I'm also very partial to You've Got To Hide Your Love Away and I Need You and Ticket To Ride. YGTHYLA just has SUCH a good chorus melody and George echoing it is *chef's kiss*. I Need You is just such a sweet little song and Ticket To Ride is so harmonically and structurally interesting. Love how Paul comes in and out with his backing vocals, love how long the song lingers on the A major chord only to resolve it in a super unexpected way.

On Rubber Soul (my FAVE!!!!!!) my favourite You Won't See Me because just ---- everything about it works for me. I love angry yet upbeat breakup(ish) songs, I love the uber-60s atmosphere of the song, I love the bassline and I love when John steals the attention with his "No I wouldn't, No I wouldn't" at the end of the middle eight. But Since I love Rubber Soul I'd like to mention that Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man, Michelle and In My Life (yes, I've converted, keep your pants on) are all incredible songs! NW is just hypnotic with its story and the sitar is just perfect; NM again, BASSLINE, and the harmonizing!!! I also really like how John sings on it; Michelle is one of the most gorgeous pieces of music I've ever heard; IML has clawed its way up for me after spending like MONTHS thinking about what the song truly means. Also I'm a sucker for using a minor fourth chord (as opposed to a major fourth chord) while playing in major!!!!

Revolver, my absolute favourite Beatles song is Eleanor Rigby because it tells the story it's trying to tell perfectly with exactly the right amount of words and the melody is rather lovely. But I still must mention I'm Only Sleeping which is my second-favourite Beatles song cause it just sounds absolutely great, start to finish. John weaves between major and minor so seemlessly and every melody in this song is perfect. The lyrics are charming beyond belief and the reverse guitar solo sounds amazing.

Sgt. Pepper: my fave is probably She's Leaving Home. I LOVE the dueting bit and I think it tells a story really well. Also obligatory shoutout to A Day In The Life, insane song. Ringo's fills on that!!!! The Ahhhs!!!! They transition so PERFECTLY back into the "I read the news today" melody, I want to eat grass.

On Magical Mystery Tour my fave is The Fool On The Hill mostly cause I just looooove those switches between the chirpy major of the verses and the dark minor of the chorus. It carries so much meaning on its own, the production of that song perfectly matches its content. MUAH!

For the White Album my favourite is While My Guitar Gently Weeps: probably George's best lyrics but also THE PIANO INTRO!!!!! THE BASS IN THE MIDDLE EIGHT!!! Also the switching from minor to major, actually in the exact same way Paul does in The Fool On The Hill only reversed. Love it!

On Yellow Submarine it's Hey Bulldog but basically by default :| I don't give this song much thought, I do like the piano lick though.

On Abbey Road my favourite is Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight: literally like PEAK PAUL. One of his most gorgeous melodies, one of his most poignant lyrics and basically my fave vocal performance of his!!!! The string arrangement in Golden Slumbers literally sounds like the violins are trying to comfort him. It's just lovely.

I'm not entirely sure what my favourite on Let It Be is tbh I don't like Let It Be much oops. In theory the best song is cleary Across The Universe but all the recordings are shit so ....! Get Back but the Love album version lmao that packs a better punch. Although the 2021 Mix was an improvement.